I am very new to the OS so adhering the new things slowly but happily. My question is how to transfer folder from win7 NTFS partition to separate partition having ext4 file system? I tried copy but at the destination drive the paste doesn't get activate.

That probably means you do not have the right permissions to paste the contents on that drive. Can you please open a terminal, type mount and copy and paste the output of that command in to your question? As it is this question cannot be resolved, you need to improve it by adding more information.
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Bruno PereiraJul 29 '12 at 20:13

Sorry, i can't figure out the path of my ntfs drive as it shows this name under properties 74DA8463DA842388 and on hovering mouse it shows /media/74DA8463DA842388. I actually have the ext4(which should be the destination of the copy operation) as /media/Data. Does that mean both drives are under root? I have 2 separate physical hard drives and source and destination are both from different physical drives. I hope this info could be of some usefulness to guiding me to the right direction
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RameshJul 30 '12 at 3:01

1. - This means and partitions are mounted. 2. - To verify this you can run the command: $ df-h This command also informs you about the path of the partition. 3. - You only need to copy from NTFS partition to the partition Destination Ext4. # cp-R / media/74DA8463DA842388/myDataWin / media / Data
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LinuxUserJul 30 '12 at 3:07